Oscar Wilde: a Life in Letters
Caratteristiche
Autore: Merlin Holland
Editore: Fourth Estate
Luogo di stampa: London - New York
Anno pubblicazione: 2003
Wilde the writer is known to us from his plays and prose fiction, yet it was in his conversation that his genius reached its summit. His talk is lost, his autobiography was never written, but his letters reveal him at his spontaneous, sparkling best. most brilliant. Fluent in style, these letters bear that most familiar of Wildean hallmarks - the lightest of touches for the most serious of subjects. He comments openly on his life and his work, from the early years of undergraduate friendship, through his year-long lecture tour in America as a striving young Professor of Aesthetics, to the short period of fame and success in the early 1890s, when he corresponded with many leading political, literary and artistic figures of the time. desert him. In this volume Merlin Holland has brought together his most revealing letters with a helpful commentary and some previously unpublished photographs. Together they form the closest thing we have to Wilde's own memoir.
Condizione prodotto:
Esemplare in buone condizioni. Sovraccoperta con lievi ingiallimento, macchie di polvere e segni di usura ai bordi e agli angoli. Tagli ingialliti e con tracce di polvere. Pagine ingiallite, in particolare ai bordi. Testo in inglese. Text in english. Book in good condition.
Codice ISBN: 0007161034
Codice EAN: 9780007161034
Pagine: XV,384
Formato: Cartonato con sovracoperta
Dimensioni (cm):
Altezza: 24
Larghezza: 16
Descrizione
Prima edizione. Testo in inglese. English text.
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